Travel Tip: Jazz in United StatesThe Bad Plus

Along with scorching original material, The Bad Plus deconstructs and reinterprets everything from Igor Stravinsky to Nirvana.

The trio has spent more than a decade redefining what a piano-bass-drums trio can and should be. They've reached audiences of all demographic stripes with an uncompromising body of original music (plus some ingenious, genre-jumping covers) and dedicated touring around the globe. On their eighth studio album, Made Possible, bassist Reid Anderson, pianist Ethan Iverson and drummer David King take their distinctive musical M.O. to captivating new heights, proving once again that the rules of musical convention are made to be broken.